Mylearning.behttps://www.mylearning.be
The future of Training is LearningMon, 04 Dec 2017 10:01:13 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1https://www.mylearning.be/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/site-thumbnail-150x150.pngMylearning.behttps://www.mylearning.be
3232Convert a VMware Fusion virtual machine to VirtualBox on machttps://www.mylearning.be/2017/12/convert-a-vmware-fusion-virtual-machine-to-virtualbox-on-mac/
https://www.mylearning.be/2017/12/convert-a-vmware-fusion-virtual-machine-to-virtualbox-on-mac/#respondMon, 04 Dec 2017 10:01:13 +0000https://www.mylearning.be/?p=1100Continue reading "Convert a VMware Fusion virtual machine to VirtualBox on mac"]]>I needed to convert a virtual machine created on VMware Fusion 9, to make it run on VirtualBox 5. To do that, you need to convert the virtual machine to the Open Virtualisation Format (.OVF).These are the steps to accomplish this:

Locate the file of the VMware virtual machine you want to convert

Right-click and select Show Package Contents

Copy all these files to a new folder

Download and install the VMware OVF Tool. This is a command line tool that will do the conversion.

Open Terminal and execute the following command

ovftool <source image>.vmx <target image>.ovf

The conversion can take quite some time. For me, it took about 3 hours for a 140 GB Windows 8 image

Once the conversion is finished, open VirtualBox and from the Filemenu, select Import appliance

After the import, power on the VM, uninstall the VMware Tools and install the VirtualBox Guest additions.

]]>https://www.mylearning.be/2017/12/convert-a-vmware-fusion-virtual-machine-to-virtualbox-on-mac/feed/0Turn your old iPad into a digital photo framehttps://www.mylearning.be/2017/11/turn-your-old-ipad-into-a-digital-photo-frame/
https://www.mylearning.be/2017/11/turn-your-old-ipad-into-a-digital-photo-frame/#respondSun, 05 Nov 2017 14:16:57 +0000https://www.mylearning.be/?p=1097Continue reading "Turn your old iPad into a digital photo frame"]]>So you have an old iPad (like an iPad 2), and you think it would be a shame to just recycle it?

Why not turn it into a fancy wifi-enabled digital photo frame? This is what you could do:

Create a dedicated Apple ID for your frame, and configure your iPad to use that specific ID.

On the computer where you store your pictures, create a new Shared Album, and share it with the Apple ID of your iPad. If you want other family members to be able to add pictures to the iPad, share the album with them too.

On the iPad, install the LiveFrame app. It is free for testing (you can view the picture slideshow for 5 minutes, then you get adds), 2,29EUR to remove that limitation.

]]>https://www.mylearning.be/2017/11/turn-your-old-ipad-into-a-digital-photo-frame/feed/0“Notes quit unexpectedly” on macOShttps://www.mylearning.be/2016/09/notes-quit-unexpectedly-on-macos/
https://www.mylearning.be/2016/09/notes-quit-unexpectedly-on-macos/#commentsSat, 24 Sep 2016 10:01:01 +0000https://www.mylearning.be/?p=1065Continue reading "“Notes quit unexpectedly” on macOS"]]>Since the new Notes app on macOS has a sharing function, I am planning to use it much more often. But today I shared a note with someone else, and since then, the Notes app systematically crashed when I opened it, with the message “Notes quit unexpectedly“.

This is how I managed to solve it:

In System Preferences, navigate to iCloud

Turn off the Notes synchronisation

In the Finder menu, click Go while keeping the Option key pressed, and select Library

Open the Containers folder

Move the com.apple.Notes folder to the trash

In System Preferences, iCloud, turn the Notes sync back on

Start Notes again.

]]>https://www.mylearning.be/2016/09/notes-quit-unexpectedly-on-macos/feed/7My Top 10 learning tools for 2016https://www.mylearning.be/2016/09/top10learningtools/
https://www.mylearning.be/2016/09/top10learningtools/#respondTue, 20 Sep 2016 19:01:00 +0000https://www.mylearning.be/?p=1062Continue reading "My Top 10 learning tools for 2016"]]>Jane Hart has a long tradition (10 years, congrats!) in gathering the world’s Top learning tools and I am happy to contribute again this year.

Some changes: there will now be a top 200, and a split on education, workplace learning, and personal and professional learning.

Here we go, in random order:

Twitter: the best way to generate your own “information streams” about various subjects. (personal & professional learning)

Microsoft OneNote: still the best note-taking application on the Windows platform. Unbeatable in combination with SharePoint or OneDrive, and a tablet pc with a digitizer pen (like the Surface). It is fully cross platform with a nice and stable client for OS X! (personal and professional learning)

Office Lens: a Microsoft mobile app (Windows, iOS, Android) that “scans” about everything with the camera of your phone. I especially like the way it “straightens” pictures of documents, whiteboards, flipcharts…
Invaluable for capturing the notes of a meeting. (personal and professional learning)

Office Mix: the top tool to “convert your PowerPoint to e-learning” (even if that is not always a good idea), almost dropped out of my list because Microsoft suddenly removed the support for SCORM export. But I give it the benefit of the doubt for another year, there is still LTI compatibility. (workplace learning)

Pocket: with the “read later” button in your browser toolbar, you can save interesting articles for later, and read them afterwards. Love the fact that it is available on and syncing with my e-reader. (personal & professional learning)

WordPress: excellent blogging platform. Recent releases have been focussing on the usability for the writer, and it is setting the standards for usability. Administration is now a piece of cake, even for non-tech users, with e.g. the auto-update feature. (personal & professional learning)

Fever: this “self-hosted Google Reader” is still my main information hub, gathering hundreds of RSS feeds that would otherwise be impossible to follow. Fever is exceptionally easy to install and very stable. (personal & professional learning)

WebEx: a very reliable, easy to use and complete web conferencing tool. An international company could not do without it. (workplace learning)

Microsoft Snip is a “garage project” that goes beyond the functionalities of the traditional “screen capture” tool. Love the fact that you can easily annotate your screen captures to document your findings, and the idea to let you record voice annotations is very useful for support purposes. And it is free. (workplace learning)

Office 365: the “swiss army knife” of productivity tools: enterprise-grade e-mail and calendar, SharePoint sites for collaborating or storing knowledge, and OneDrive that has 1TB of storage and that is a serious competitor for tools like Google Drive and DropBox.
Some nice extensions became available, like Sway and Flow, but for me it is too early to mention them separately …(workplace learning)

]]>https://www.mylearning.be/2016/09/top10learningtools/feed/0Be the spark that changes the worldhttps://www.mylearning.be/2016/06/be-the-spark-that-changes-the-world/
https://www.mylearning.be/2016/06/be-the-spark-that-changes-the-world/#respondSat, 18 Jun 2016 07:12:03 +0000https://www.mylearning.be/?p=1053
]]>https://www.mylearning.be/2016/06/be-the-spark-that-changes-the-world/feed/0Snip, a free screen capture toolhttps://www.mylearning.be/2016/06/snip-a-free-screen-capture-tool/
https://www.mylearning.be/2016/06/snip-a-free-screen-capture-tool/#commentsSun, 12 Jun 2016 13:07:51 +0000https://www.mylearning.be/?p=1049Continue reading "Snip, a free screen capture tool"]]>If you occasionally need to take a screenshot (or a screen capture of your screen), recent versions of Windows provide you with the Windows Snipping tool. It works well for simple jobs, but a recent Microsoft Garage project called Snip takes it to the next level.

It offers a number of advantages:

it runs in the background and is always available

it stores your screenshots in a “library” without having to save manually to a file

you can annotate your screenshot with various drawing tools. Especially useful when you are using a tablet

you can save your annotations in a video file and add voice-over to it (very handy for describing an issue)

]]>https://www.mylearning.be/2016/06/snip-a-free-screen-capture-tool/feed/1Microsoft Surface Pro 3 hangs on black “Surface” boot screenhttps://www.mylearning.be/2016/05/microsoft-surface-pro-3-hangs-on-black-surface-boot-screen/
https://www.mylearning.be/2016/05/microsoft-surface-pro-3-hangs-on-black-surface-boot-screen/#respondWed, 04 May 2016 19:53:51 +0000https://www.mylearning.be/?p=1029Continue reading "Microsoft Surface Pro 3 hangs on black “Surface” boot screen"]]>On several occasions, I had my Surface Pro 3 freeze up on me on the boot screen. When I would turn on the surface, it would get to the black screen with the Surface logo, but it would not get any further. No spinner, no activity, nothing.

The following procedure fixes my issue every time:

if the Surface is turned on, turn it off by holding the power button for at least 30 seconds

press and hold the volume up button and the power button simultaneously for 15 seconds, then release the buttons

screen will flash and the Surface will shut down (sometimes it gets stuck at the bios screen, just exit then)

mounting the SD card on a computer and deleting the loopdir folder in the root of the card solved the issue for me, as suggested here. Personally, deleting that folder did not delete my favorites, the only thing I had to do is set my home location again.

]]>https://www.mylearning.be/2016/03/tomtom-device-reboots-continuously-after-update/feed/1Edit your hosts file quicklyhttps://www.mylearning.be/2016/01/edit-your-hosts-file-quickly/
https://www.mylearning.be/2016/01/edit-your-hosts-file-quickly/#respondSat, 30 Jan 2016 16:55:31 +0000https://www.mylearning.be/?p=1009Continue reading "Edit your hosts file quickly"]]>Everybody who has ever migrated to a new hosting provider, purchased a new domain name or made DNS changes has done it: adding lines to your hosts file to “hard code” the ip address of a server host name on the workstation you are working on.

On Windows, this has become a pain since the UAC feature was introduced. In order to modify, you need elevated permissions, so you need to start your favorite text editor as administrator. On top of that, the file is buried somewhere in the deepest cave of your c-drive (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\).

There must be an easy way to do this. I managed to reduce it to two clicks via a shortcut on my desktop, with the procedure below. Who can do better? One click only?

Right-click your desktop

In the context menu, select New > Shortcut

In Type the location of the item, enter C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

Click Next

In Type a name for this shortcut, type any name you want (I used Edit hosts file)

Click Finish

Right-click the new icon on your desktop and select Properties

On the Shortcut tab, click the Advanced button

Check Run as administrator and click OK

Click OK

Seems to be a lot of work, but it will save you numerous clicks whenever you need to edit the file again.

]]>https://www.mylearning.be/2016/01/edit-your-hosts-file-quickly/feed/0Export to SCORM suddenly removed from Office Mix?https://www.mylearning.be/2016/01/export-to-scorm-suddenly-removed-from-office-mix/
https://www.mylearning.be/2016/01/export-to-scorm-suddenly-removed-from-office-mix/#commentsTue, 26 Jan 2016 23:02:31 +0000https://www.mylearning.be/?p=1005Continue reading "Export to SCORM suddenly removed from Office Mix?"]]>We were all so happy that Microsoft recently added support for SCORM to Office Mix. Well, there might be some bad news: I installed Office Mix on a new pc today, and the button to export to SCORM is no longer there. And it seems that I am not the only one that is having this issue…

So until further notice, it might be wise not to update the Office Mix plugin.